Plowing Up the Field

PLOWING UP the FIELD

Winters in Colorado are severe and early. First signs of the migration comes from Frances Berglund, who has moved her recently obtained COMMUNICATOR (formerly published by Sadah Field and Chuck Higgins) to Phoenix... Also back in Phoenix are the Robinsons -- John and Hazel -- who went to Colorado with visions of a mountain utopia, where members could do what they thought they were best fitted to do... Quoting from the COMMUNICATOR: "He (Steves) said Mr. Hubbard is now going to release techniques that will finish dianetics as a mental therapy". This should come as good news to the A.M.A.... From Sacramento comes word from the Post Office that Duane Leazenby "doesn't live here any more"... "Smokey" Brand writes that he and an 11-year-old boy dared the Texas heat to erect a quonset hut and lay a concrete floor as the nucleus of a machine shop "Smokey" plans to run. "Without even a motorcycle to keep in trim, it was a bit rough," Brand admits...

Harry B. Murphy's back in Santa Paula, Calif., after a summer's vacation in Stockton. Now, Harry says, he's trying to catch up on the missing ABERREEs which the postman didn't forward all summer... "Oil Man" Grant Pool is trying to teach people they don't really have to KNOW how to know -- they can look it up. He's selling Encyclopaedias in Phoenix ... The Rennicks -- Carroll and Pearl -- are in their new Phoenix home, planting a garden and digging out the trash that builders seem to enjoy burying in what eventually will be a lawn, if the Hennick strength holds out... Arden and Ruth Bergquist of Wichita drove to the Salt Flats to see what the drouth had done to the man-made lake at the edge of the "dust bowl". You could float a shingle on it, he admits, but you might have to add the contents of your canteen first. On the way home, they stopped in Enid for a preview of the midwest convention site -- - Cliff Goodman of New Rochelle, N.Y., has been riding herd on a string of organ ivories with the Del Trio at the ritzy Skirvin Tower in Okie City...

John Farrell, who says he likes to see his name in the paper, pens from Pomona, Calif., that he and the Rev. Miss Tucker Loane are engaged and have asked L. Ron Hubbard to be officiating minister in the Phoenix Church of Scientology. Both will take the Eighth Clinical Course -- John as an initiate and his bride or bride-to-be as a repeater... And speaking of marriages and what happens when you do, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mullen of Tulsa announce the arrival of 6 pounds, 7 ounces of matter, energy, space, and time -- a girl, Wanda Claire, on 26 September... Roman J. Mazurek of Chicago stopped in Enid on his way to the Eighth Clinical Unit, hoping to find Ye-Ed-&-Pub, a town of Indians, and some western cooking. Finding only Ye-Ed-&-Pub, he settled for fried pork chops, probably grown on an Illinois farm and processed in Chicago... Paul Ishmael plans to abandon Oklahoma city again if he can make the right connections in Houston -- electrical connections, that is... Ross and Lynn Lamoreaux have moved to a small, two-bedroom, house in Phoenix (1913 E. Campbell), and the old Scientology Institute quarters have been taken over for a rest home. Ross is supplementing his auditing income by selling courses in a radio school... Norman Fritz, Wichita, is taking a week's vacation in California, where he will visit with Waldo Boyd, one of the former Wichita Foundation wheels, in Encino... Among those NOT expected at the Enid Convention are: Dwight Eisenhower, Helen O'Brien., L. Ron Hubbard, and the 'Slycus agent from Galaxy T-8, although all are invited.